Crash scene duties — Alaska Permit Test
Crash scene duties on the Alaska permit test — 4 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
In every Alaska crash, stop at once, and if you are blocking traffic, move your vehicle out of the way if possible.
Driving off leaves hurt people without help, and a wreck left in the lane can cause a second crash.
Stop at once.
After an Alaska crash, warn other traffic to prevent more crashes; at night, place flares or other signals on the road.
Drivers coming up behind a wreck in the dark may not see it in time to stop.
To prevent other crashes, warn other traffic.
When helping someone hurt in an Alaska crash, do not move an injured person unless necessary; stop serious bleeding and keep the victim warm.
Moving someone with a neck or back injury can make it far worse, while bleeding and cold can be treated where they lie.
Do not remove an injured person unless necessary.
After an Alaska crash, get the other driver's name, address, driver's license number, license plate number, telephone number and insurance company, and the identity of as many witnesses as you can.
Claims and reports depend on reaching the other driver and the witnesses later, after everyone has left.
Obtain the name, address, driver’s license number, license plate number, telephone number, and name of insurance company of the other driver.
On the test
What is the first thing to do after any crash in Alaska?
Stop your vehicle at once. Driving off leaves hurt people without help, and a wreck left in the lane can cause a second crash. Alaska Driver Manual, p.15: “Stop at once.”
How this works
Most practice tests hand you a bank of questions and leave the manual somewhere else. This one puts them together.
You read one law and the reason behind it, then answer a question on that law while it is still fresh. Get it right and you move on; get it wrong and you have found the gap while it is cheap to fix, not on the morning of the exam.
Learning one rule at a time, and proving it immediately, is what turns a manual you skimmed into something you actually know — and it makes studying feel like getting somewhere rather than like waiting to find out.
What it costs
- One payment, once — not a subscription. Nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel, for an exam you sit one time.
- Free to start: a 10-question test and the first section of cards. No sign-up and no account.
- Paying opens the rest of the cards, unlimited full-length practice tests, and retests built from exactly the questions you got wrong.
- Every level up to Prepared — 3 tests passed in a row.
- Do the work, fail the real exam, and we refund you.
Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Alaska Driver Manual, published by the Alaska Department of Administration, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-04.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/AK.pdf (Alaska Driver Manual, REV.10/2025, Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles, retrieved 2026-09-14 and re-checked 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/AK.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- https://dmv.alaska.gov/credential-services/drivermanual/ (read 2026-10-04; links the manual)
- https://dmv.alaska.gov/credential-services/instruction-permit/ (read 2026-10-04; states no count or mark)
- https://dmv.alaska.gov/credential-services/your-first-alaska-drivers-license/ (read 2026-10-04; states no count or mark)
- https://www.akleg.gov/basis/aac.asp?media=print&secStart=2.90.010&secEnd=2.90.990 (2 AAC 90, read 2026-10-04; 2 AAC 90.420(h)(2) sets the knowledge test's retest wait and no figure)